
AWS for the European Health Data Space (EHDS)
Build secure and scalable infrastructure for healthcare
Healthcare systems face significant challenges including limited interoperability of health data, fragmented systems, and the need to enable citizen control over personal health data. To address these challenges, the EHDS will create common standards and practices to enable around 449 million EU citizens to better access, control, and share their electronic personal health data for research, innovation, policy-making, and regulatory activities in the European Union (EU). Realizing this vision requires combining thoughtful policy frameworks with cutting-edge technologies, to ensure security, transparency, and required data governance. AWS can provide much needed technical support.
With over 200 fully featured services, and the most secure, extensive, and reliable Global Cloud Infrastructure, AWS offers the infrastructure and capabilities needed to build secure, scalable, and compliant health data platforms. AWS is committed to collaborating with customers and partners to implement projects that will contribute to establishing a vibrant EHDS, one that sets global standards for the responsible use of sensitive data to improve people's lives.
AWS portfolio for EHDS
200+ fully featured cloud services
AWS offers a broad set of cloud-based products that help organizations move faster, lower IT costs, and scale. AWS provides unmatched reliability, security, and data privacy and is a trusted technology and innovation partner to the healthcare and life sciences industry. In Europe, the AWS Cloud spans 8 Geographic Regions, with the upcoming AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
AWS Partner Network (APN)
AWS Partners are uniquely positioned to help you accelerate your journey to the cloud and take full advantage of all that AWS has to offer. Customers can work with AWS Healthcare Competency Partners to build innovative, cost-effective, and secure solutions that improve operational and clinical effectiveness, while improving patient outcomes for healthcare payers and providers. Partners with the Security Competency have deep technical expertise with security in AWS and proven customer success in securing the cloud journey with their infrastructure, software and services offerings.
AWS Prescriptive Guidance
AWS technology experts and AWS Partners provide resources to help accelerate cloud adoption and modernization. For example, the Healthcare Lens of the AWS Well-Architected Framework supports EHR providers with architectural guidance across six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability. Customers can also search for further guidance, like Generative AI and NLP approaches for healthcare and life sciences and guidance for Implementing a modern health-data strategy.
Use cases and success stories
Climedo

Boehringer Ingelheim

Siemens Healthineers

Roche

Using Cloud for EHDS implementation
The advent of cloud technology, coupled with advances in fields like epidemiology, genomics, and data analytics, has led to transformational change in how we use data in health. These developments enable a data-driven approach in individual care, public health, and health-related research. The report “Our Health in the Cloud” developed by the Health Policy Partnership and the European Institute for Innovation in Health Data provides a balanced narrative on what cloud technology is and how it can be used safely and effectively as an enabler of broader health system goals, building on concrete examples of existing applications.

Explore AWS Health Services
AWS Partner Network (APN) for EHDS
BC Platforms

Collective Minds

DataArt

Dedalus

Genomcore

HippocrAItes

InterSystems

Thoughtworks

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Resources and guidance for EHDS
EHDS implementation
European Health Data Space will enable health innovation through secure data sharing | Watch video
AWS Well-Architected Framework - Healthcare Industry Lens | Learn more
EHDS: Building the future of European healthcare through seamless data environments | Watch webinar with AWS partner Thoughtworks
Nasenbluten und Fehldiagnosen: Warum Gesundheitsdaten so wichtig sind | Listen podcast
European Health Data Space: The future of healthcare | Listen podcast with AWS partner Thoughtworks
Primary use of health data
Healthcare interoperability reference architecture | Learn more
Transforming European healthcare: HippocrAItes’ EHDS-ready health data platform | Read blog
Building trust in healthcare data: Real-world interoperability with AWS HealthLake and DataArt | Read blog
Improve patient care through secure data sharing and generative AI | Take a workshop
Secondary use of health data
Build secure and scalable data platforms for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) with AWS | Read blog
Using AWS for EHDS: A technical guide to building a secure health data platform | Read blog
Implementing a modern health-data strategy | Learn more
Paradigm Shift in Health Data Management through the Cloud | Download report
AWS Well-Architected Framework with Data Analytics Lens | Learn more
Enabling collaboration in European Healthcare system using Data Mesh Technology | Learn more
Generative AI in Healthcare
Health AI Hub | Explore
Unlocking Europe’s AI Potential in the Digital Decade 2025 | Read report
Discover the power of generative AI in healthcare | Download report
Generative AI and NLP approaches for healthcare and life sciences | Learn more
How to safeguard healthcare data privacy using Amazon Bedrock Guardrails | Learn more
Creating Responsible AI With Amazon Bedrock Guardrails | Take a workshop
Security, compliance & ESC
Healthcare Compliance in the Cloud | Learn more
AWS compliance programs in Europe | Learn more
Hébergeur de Données de Santé (HDS) in France | Learn more
DiGAV compliance in Germany | Learn more
Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalog (C5) | Learn more